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by vostrocity 3y ago
Dang, was it common knowledge that Apple is testing its autonomous driving tech on public roads? I had no idea!
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by vostrocity 5y ago
Many states already charge EVs and PHEVs a higher annual registration fee than ICE vehicles. I understand replacing the gas taxes, but very weird since it completely works against federal and state EV/PHEV incentives.
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by vostrocity 5y ago
I bought a new car and I couldn't figure out if my license plate has the digit '0' or the letter 'O', so I added both versions to my FasTrak to check which license plate would get charged. It took 4 days after cross
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by vostrocity 5y ago
FasTrak has actually been surprisingly nice for me. I love the ability to add cars by license plate to an account, and being able to specify exactly when coverage starts and ends down to minute precision. Renting a car? You can add the plat
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by vostrocity 7y ago
I remember seeing a few years ago a startup that made a panel heater that was really a computer that would mine Bitcoin or something.
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Ask HN: Can I room with YC startups?
2 points by vostrocity 7y ago|0 comments
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by vostrocity 8y ago
Seeking UX design internship for Summer 2019! - Location: SF Bay Area, Davis Remote: I don't mind Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Sketch, Figma, Adobe CC, Principle, HTML5, CSS3, Git, willing to learn Résumé/CV: http:&#x2F
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by vostrocity 8y ago
The local news is one reason I like to stream the local station on TuneIn rather than NPR's various apps. Where else do I hear local news from in this day and age?
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by vostrocity 9y ago
I don't think many managers and executives enjoy their jobs because of the power they have in the organization. I think they enjoy their jobs by being proficient at their work and getting rewarded for it, like the rest of us.
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by vostrocity 9y ago
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, David Kahneman writes about "peak-end rule" - people tend to rate experiences by their peak level of emotion during the experience, and by the way experiences end. My takeaway is if you want people to r
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by vostrocity 9y ago
There is another element beyond explaining clearly, and that is that people tend to remember and relate to tangible examples better than abstractions. Metaphors are great memory devices even for people who are not dumb or uneducated.
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by vostrocity 9y ago
Busses don't get cleaned often, lack modern creature comforts like leather surfaces and music, have distractingly bad noise/vibration/harshness, etc.
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by vostrocity 9y ago
I think an interesting question is whether kids raised on this content "barely above the spam threshold" have different cognitive functions and/or appreciation of content later in life. Maybe these kids raised on mass-produce
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by vostrocity 9y ago
Correct. I don't see this as different than content farms that generate low-quality webpages to monetize with ads. I think the real issue is that online advertising platforms are allowing this to happen and charging advertisers for it
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by vostrocity 9y ago
I still use Mavericks for personal stuff. Ditched iOS for MIUI (more polished than iOS these days).
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by vostrocity 9y ago
I really miss Samsung's 'double-click home button to use camera' on the Galaxy S6 and S7. Probably the most convenient implementation of a camera shortcut I've seen.
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by vostrocity 9y ago
There are four sticking points in this article that I felt could use farther clarification - why AI could not be used to innovate on manufacturing, and what that leads to - the education and intellectual pursuits of humans and how it compar
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by vostrocity 9y ago
This article gives a prognosis of AI that does not destroy civilization but makes civilization better. It is much more comforting than proposals to try to limit AI in my opinion.
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by vostrocity 9y ago
I interpreted the construction of data centers as happening over the span of a few years, and continuously after that. The whole transformation up to the creation of the Alliance seemed like it would have to happen in half a century, if no
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by vostrocity 9y ago
On a road with high traffic speed and not enough visibility of pedestrians waiting at the side of the road, most motorists won't yield
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by vostrocity 9y ago
Similar to a few places in Los Angeles Flashing red light = stop sign is in most people's driver's ed, but it seems like most people don't know how to react to it (like you, I see some people simply blow through and others wa
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by vostrocity 9y ago
Better known as the 'CHMSL' (Center High-Mounted Stop Lamps)
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by vostrocity 9y ago
Knowing student groups, it's not about making money, but a few smart undergrads showing other undergrads emerging fields and letting them get some hands-on experience. A group like this has a DeCal (a student-led university-credit cour
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by vostrocity 9y ago
Uber can probably be profitable tomorrow if it wanted to be, but then it would have its long-term opportunities gobbled up by others
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by vostrocity 9y ago
People keep saying Uber is burning cash, but their core business model is sound: $5 per hour per driver goes to Uber Assume 80,000 drivers (half of # U.S. Uber drivers) drive 8 hours a day, 7 days a week 52 weeks in a year 5x8x80000x7x52=$1
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by vostrocity 9y ago
"no longer price competitive" to who? "drivers start to leave" where are they leaving to?
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by vostrocity 9y ago
What's truly fascinating is all of these innovative products made in Asia which aren't officially marketed in the West (thus allowing people to market it in smalltime ways, like Kickstarter). If you go to the right parts of Asia n
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by vostrocity 10y ago
I don't think you can get approved for cards like Chase Sapphire Reserve without a certain credit history. It's not the annual fee.
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by vostrocity 10y ago
Uber could just run Android or iOS emulators running Lyft with fake user accounts and fake geolocation.
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by vostrocity 10y ago
This is exactly why I enjoy Lyft's option for tipping. Tipping is awkward if I have to fumble for cash and stuff it in the driver's hands. It's not awkward if I can just press a button and charge it to my credit card.

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